1. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
2. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
3. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
4. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”
5. “The time is always right to do what is right.”
6. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
7. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”
8. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
9. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
10. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'”
11. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.”
12. “A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
13. “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
14. “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
15. “I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
16. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
17. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
18. “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
19. “The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'”
20. “The end of violence or the absence of violence is not nonviolence. The end of violence is love.”
21. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
22. “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
23. “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
24. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
25. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
26. “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”
27. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
28. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
29. “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom.”
30. “The measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
